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First, this isn't Trump's FDA/Industry issue alone. If true, this unforgivable practice goes back a couple of Administrations.
That being said, let's first explore embryology and the issue at hand: Can Prostate Cancer Be sexually Transmitted? Boys vs girls:
The location of these glands sit right next to the cervix and uterus structure. The uterus and upper 1/3 of the vagina share a similar embryological origin with the prostate gland and its adjacent structures.
Uterine cancer is the most common form of cancer in the Western World. It's close cousin: prostate cancer, is the second most common type of cancer.
The latest rage in cancer treatment is a cancer vaccine. This vaccine varies. In some cases its generalized and has moderate success. In others it's personalized with the person's own cancer tumor DNA being biopsied and the patient's immune system T-cells sort of "trained up" to recognize and fight it. It's a little tricky but easily done in a lab with tuned genetic equipment. One vaccine or maybe a series of five innoculations and that's it. It's really hard for radiation and chemo to compete with....
Comparative to its male-twin, the most common type of cancer, endometrial, is rarely mentioned (Google it) and if it is, rarely finds itself the topic of aggressive study. It's mentioned often as an afterthought, while breast cancer takes center stage in most cases. Breast cancer is more aggressive growing and so I suppose that's the reason for shoving the most common type, that kills just as nicely, back into the shadows.
There currently are clinical trials for this type of "Personalized Cancer Vaccines" going on in the US. A Study of RO7198457 (Personalized Cancer Vaccine [PCV]) as a Single Agent and in Combination With Atezolizumab in Participants With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Tumors - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov And while BigPharma is throwing a wide net with these trials for, bladder, colon, breast, kidney, head and neck cancers, guess what's not included? Endometrial cancer. Oh, wait, it might be under "other".... (see what I mean?)
Meanwhile, not only have vast studies been done on prostate cancer compared to endometrial cancer, they have an FDA approved general vaccine for prostate cancer. It's done. Patented, out the door and on the market. Poor endometrial cancer sits in the shadows waiting for her chance to not die.
Immunotherapy: A Vaccine for Prostate Cancer - PCF
What's interesting is that men having the least success with this vaccine are those who aren't doing the "chemical castration" part of the treatments. ie: they are loathe to reduce their testosterone so its presence outpaces the vaccine's ability to keep the disease in check. Testosterone fuels prostate cancer growth. If you're a woman with as advanced uterine cancer as men's advanced prostate, they gut you like a fish and remove your ovaries without preamble. You are not allowed to go on hormone replacement therapy of any kind to keep your estrogen levels up to snuff.
Possible theories for BigPharma playing God with women have come to mind. Cancer vaccines are cutting edge. VIPs have been quietly getting them and surviving miraculously with advanced age and very dangerous types of cancer (Ruth Bader Ginsburg comes to mind here). We hear about Jimmy Carter famously going on Keytruda to conquer his disease, but I'll bet there was a vaccine in there in addition to the Keytruda. (sure makes Keytruda look good though) They like to play up the cancer vaccine like it's some extremely tricky thing. But the principle behind vaccines: teaching the body's T-cells to recognize a foreign invader is many many decades old. All that was needed was just some extra expertise on DNA studies. And guess where we've been for the last decade at least? Huge leaps in genetics.
The theory I'm kicking around is this; BigCancer is big money. HUGE money. Think about all those donation sites asking for you to give to "research". Also, enormous investments have been made in radiation oncology in those very expensive machines. Tons, decades of technology hard-won going into their making and fine-tuning. Thousands of college degrees and internships on the line who specialized in this type of cancer therapy. And, not to mention the chemo side of the coin; all those careers and cozy gravy-trains. (Chemo is the only drug where MD's profit-share per patient) Cancer docs profit from chemotherapy drugs Imagine the following publication "FDA announces that cancer can be now cured by a vaccine specific to each patient". Goodbye donations. Goodbye investment in all those careers. Perhaps its possible these things are playing into BigCancer's silent exclusion of the largest group of people having or expected to have cancer in the coming years...
So, BigCancer knows comparatively cheap and easy to manufacture cancer vaccines are going to take over. Other countries are already ahead of us and are publishing. Perhaps, just perhaps the unthinkable is happening. If you look at it purely from a standpoint of recovering investment and milking the profit cash cow as long as possible before the inevitable, maybe you might dip your toe into the cancer vaccine clinical trial, if for no other reason just not to look as sinister as you really are. To show the world "we're really trying!". Then, on the down low, you might be tempted to sequester a certain-type of cancer to push backwards and keep "unstudied and not approved for treatment". Maybe that might be, say, the most common type of cancer killing people. Maybe a demographic people tend to dismiss out of hand anyway? Like women.
That way, the machine $$ can hum along while it pretends to care. It's just that if you were born without a penis, you will be fodder for profits for as long as humanly possible before the jig is up and the vaccine cards are laid on the table. But if you're a male with the kissing cousin cancer type to endometrial (prostate) enjoy that cancer vaccine that's already approved by the FDA.
Ah the American medical establishment. Profits first, people second. (Can you just hear the sound of life insurance premiums for women clinking upwards?). You've come a long way baby. Now shut up and die, daddy needs a new pair of shoes.
If you are a woman, withhold that cancer fund donation until you see evidence that BigCancer is going to do trials for vaccines on the most common type of killer first. Once you see proof of this, go ahead and donate if you care to. Think of it as an investment in your, or certainly one of your friend's or daughter or niece or aunt or mother's future. In the ranching business, we don't grain ponies who kick. We wait until they be nice; then they get their grain.
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That being said, let's first explore embryology and the issue at hand: Can Prostate Cancer Be sexually Transmitted? Boys vs girls:
Women do have glands similar to men's prostate!...They are called the Skene's glands, and are situated in the vagina's upper part, in the region of the lower end of the urethra. Some scientists believe they serve initially as prostate glands in the embryo, but later on reduce in size in females and develop in males. Skene's glands are quite close to the famous "g-spot", and they feature numerous differences from woman to woman in size or other minor characteristics....It is considered extremely rare, but Skene's glands can be afflicted by cancer. In fact, the tumor's cells emit prostate - specific antigen (PSA), exactly like prostate cancer tumors.
The location of these glands sit right next to the cervix and uterus structure. The uterus and upper 1/3 of the vagina share a similar embryological origin with the prostate gland and its adjacent structures.
Uterine cancer is the most common form of cancer in the Western World. It's close cousin: prostate cancer, is the second most common type of cancer.
The latest rage in cancer treatment is a cancer vaccine. This vaccine varies. In some cases its generalized and has moderate success. In others it's personalized with the person's own cancer tumor DNA being biopsied and the patient's immune system T-cells sort of "trained up" to recognize and fight it. It's a little tricky but easily done in a lab with tuned genetic equipment. One vaccine or maybe a series of five innoculations and that's it. It's really hard for radiation and chemo to compete with....
Comparative to its male-twin, the most common type of cancer, endometrial, is rarely mentioned (Google it) and if it is, rarely finds itself the topic of aggressive study. It's mentioned often as an afterthought, while breast cancer takes center stage in most cases. Breast cancer is more aggressive growing and so I suppose that's the reason for shoving the most common type, that kills just as nicely, back into the shadows.
There currently are clinical trials for this type of "Personalized Cancer Vaccines" going on in the US. A Study of RO7198457 (Personalized Cancer Vaccine [PCV]) as a Single Agent and in Combination With Atezolizumab in Participants With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Tumors - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov And while BigPharma is throwing a wide net with these trials for, bladder, colon, breast, kidney, head and neck cancers, guess what's not included? Endometrial cancer. Oh, wait, it might be under "other".... (see what I mean?)
Meanwhile, not only have vast studies been done on prostate cancer compared to endometrial cancer, they have an FDA approved general vaccine for prostate cancer. It's done. Patented, out the door and on the market. Poor endometrial cancer sits in the shadows waiting for her chance to not die.
Immunotherapy: A Vaccine for Prostate Cancer - PCF
If results of a clinical trial are as promising as scientists believe they will be, we may soon be entering an era where every man diagnosed with prostate cancer gets a combined vaccine to help his body fight it off....The idea is to “harness the tremendous power of the immune system to augment what your body has done your whole life, which is fight off infections,”...
“The vaccine is made from a man’s own cells,”... The immune cells are collected in a process called leukapheresis – basically, blood goes out through a needle in one arm, some white blood cells, platelets and red blood cells are taken out, and the rest of the blood is pumped back into the other arm. Then, those cells are put in a culture with an engineered protein that links prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP) with what Drake calls a “special sauce” that activates the immune system.
What's interesting is that men having the least success with this vaccine are those who aren't doing the "chemical castration" part of the treatments. ie: they are loathe to reduce their testosterone so its presence outpaces the vaccine's ability to keep the disease in check. Testosterone fuels prostate cancer growth. If you're a woman with as advanced uterine cancer as men's advanced prostate, they gut you like a fish and remove your ovaries without preamble. You are not allowed to go on hormone replacement therapy of any kind to keep your estrogen levels up to snuff.
Possible theories for BigPharma playing God with women have come to mind. Cancer vaccines are cutting edge. VIPs have been quietly getting them and surviving miraculously with advanced age and very dangerous types of cancer (Ruth Bader Ginsburg comes to mind here). We hear about Jimmy Carter famously going on Keytruda to conquer his disease, but I'll bet there was a vaccine in there in addition to the Keytruda. (sure makes Keytruda look good though) They like to play up the cancer vaccine like it's some extremely tricky thing. But the principle behind vaccines: teaching the body's T-cells to recognize a foreign invader is many many decades old. All that was needed was just some extra expertise on DNA studies. And guess where we've been for the last decade at least? Huge leaps in genetics.
The theory I'm kicking around is this; BigCancer is big money. HUGE money. Think about all those donation sites asking for you to give to "research". Also, enormous investments have been made in radiation oncology in those very expensive machines. Tons, decades of technology hard-won going into their making and fine-tuning. Thousands of college degrees and internships on the line who specialized in this type of cancer therapy. And, not to mention the chemo side of the coin; all those careers and cozy gravy-trains. (Chemo is the only drug where MD's profit-share per patient) Cancer docs profit from chemotherapy drugs Imagine the following publication "FDA announces that cancer can be now cured by a vaccine specific to each patient". Goodbye donations. Goodbye investment in all those careers. Perhaps its possible these things are playing into BigCancer's silent exclusion of the largest group of people having or expected to have cancer in the coming years...
So, BigCancer knows comparatively cheap and easy to manufacture cancer vaccines are going to take over. Other countries are already ahead of us and are publishing. Perhaps, just perhaps the unthinkable is happening. If you look at it purely from a standpoint of recovering investment and milking the profit cash cow as long as possible before the inevitable, maybe you might dip your toe into the cancer vaccine clinical trial, if for no other reason just not to look as sinister as you really are. To show the world "we're really trying!". Then, on the down low, you might be tempted to sequester a certain-type of cancer to push backwards and keep "unstudied and not approved for treatment". Maybe that might be, say, the most common type of cancer killing people. Maybe a demographic people tend to dismiss out of hand anyway? Like women.
That way, the machine $$ can hum along while it pretends to care. It's just that if you were born without a penis, you will be fodder for profits for as long as humanly possible before the jig is up and the vaccine cards are laid on the table. But if you're a male with the kissing cousin cancer type to endometrial (prostate) enjoy that cancer vaccine that's already approved by the FDA.
Ah the American medical establishment. Profits first, people second. (Can you just hear the sound of life insurance premiums for women clinking upwards?). You've come a long way baby. Now shut up and die, daddy needs a new pair of shoes.
If you are a woman, withhold that cancer fund donation until you see evidence that BigCancer is going to do trials for vaccines on the most common type of killer first. Once you see proof of this, go ahead and donate if you care to. Think of it as an investment in your, or certainly one of your friend's or daughter or niece or aunt or mother's future. In the ranching business, we don't grain ponies who kick. We wait until they be nice; then they get their grain.
.